Goa is gearing up to host its Coastal State Workshop on March 2, 2026 as part of India's larger maritime ambitions under the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision (MAKV) 2047.
Organised by the Directorate General of Shipping, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (DGS-MoPSW), in connection with the state Ports Department and Elets Technomedia—a research and high-level event management firm.
The point of this collaborative dialogue between the Centre and the state is to align state-level strategies with the blueprints for world-class ports, sustainable shipping, and logistics power listed in the MAKV 2047.
It will cover maritime topics of local and national significance, from coastal regulation and infrastructure upgrades to assessments of the state's role in India's blue economy initiatives.
Specifically, the DGS intends to use the workshop for the threefold aim of policy alignment, identifying state-specific opportunities, and creating (and acting on) an implementation roadmap.
The event will be attended by Union Minister for MoPSW, Sarbananda Sonowal, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, and Digambar Kamat, Captain of Ports, Public Works & Legal Metrology, Government of Goa—among other ministry officials and stakeholders.
This comes after an initial briefing earlier, which was intended to give state departments and stakeholders a better idea about the scope of Centre's proposed thematic areas, policy direction, and expectations from the future.
The March 2 workshop in Goa follows on from this and is designed as a deeper, outcome-oriented engagement. It will focus on state-specific challenges, opportunities, and implementation pathways.
The Goa Coastal State Workshop is designed around a six-pillar thematic framework, reflecting the core priorities of the maritime sector here.
The six pillars are: Maritime Safety & Casualty Response; Shipbuilding & Ship Recycling; Training, Skilling & Zero Corruption in MTIs; Crewing, Employment & Zero Tolerance in Manning; Sustainability, Environment & Decarbonisation; and Coastal Shipping, Inland Navigation & Multimodal Linkages.
These enable targeted discussions while ensuring alignment with overarching national maritime goals to boost India's pursuit of becoming a global maritime superpower by 2047.
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